Munnings moved from Swainsthorpe near Norwich to the artist's colony at Lamorna, Cornwall in 1913. The Artist describes his first Cornish painting in his autobiography, An Artist's Life, 'A grey sky; a boulder strewn hill with flat spaces of grey granite showing amongst the heather-clad sides sloping down to the moor below. Beyond that undulating moors, fields and stone walls. Farther away, Guava Cairn, grey against the yet paler grey of the faint distant horizon beyond Morvah, and through all this the Land's End road curving away out of sight. Coming up the hill with hounds was Ned on the on the grey, the scarlet coat in low tones, the black velvet cap the darkest note of colour - a splendid sight'.
(A.J. Munnings, An Artist's Life, Suffolk, 1950, p.276)

Munnings stayed at Zennor for five weeks and he continued to develop hunting scenes set against the spring sky-line. The present work, considered to be one of his finest Cornish hunting scenes, was the inspiration for a larger oil, from the collection of the late Bing Crosby, 'On the Moors', painted in 1919 and exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1931

(See N. Usherwood, Manchester City Art Galleries, 1986, p.94)

Charles Bunting formed his collection of paintings by Munnings in collaboration with James Hardy. The paintings were split between the two men and the remaining twelve pictures from the Hardy Collection were sold in these Rooms on 9 Nov. 1989 for ?994,950